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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Years of scandals means that DCPS wants to take over.  [/quote]

Yes, the made-up residency fraud scandal and a sexual misconduct scandal mishandled by a previous administration and the police means DCPS should obviously take over. By all means take one of the few high schools in the city that has a nearly 100% graduation and college acceptance rate and let DCPS screw around with it.

The DCPS "takeover" has been walked back quite a bit. At this point, from what I understand, DCPS and Ellington have mostly worked out an agreement about alternative certification for arts teachers who do not have an education degree. I believe they have agreed that the principal will stay on as DESAP principal, which is overseeing both the DCPS and arts side of things. There are a few sticking points, however. Most importantly, teacher and administrative pay. Teachers at Ellington took a pay cut a few years ago when DCPS cut the budget.[/quote]

It wasn't made up. It wasn't as many students as was originally announced, but in the end there was some undisputed fraud. Look at this very slanted article from Jay Mathews- https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/duke-ellington-school-funding/2021/01/30/8c718d66-618d-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html  164 students were accused. 87% were cleared. That means that 13% were not cleared, or 21 students. 21 students times $15,000 a year (just a guess) is $315,000 in fraud for JUST ONE YEAR. Yes, it's real and it matters.

As for the graduation rate and college acceptance, wowie wowie wow that a school that hand-picks its students has acceptable academic results. Color me impressed. You know as well as I do that Ellington's academics are actually pretty meh, they're just better than other nearby schools.  And I certainly don't understand why these acceptable "results" could justify hundreds of thousands of dollars in residency fraud.[/quote]

NP what in the world did Duke Ellington do to hurt you? You seem to have a lot of misplaced anger at a school. Throwing out 315k as "fraud" does nothing to impress me either. [/quote]

I care about the integrity of public programs, that's why.

Do you dispute my calculation? Is Jay Mathews wrong about the numbers? How much do you think it costs the DC taxpayer to educate these non-resident kids?[/quote]

Duke Ellington is in year 5 of 100% enrollment audits. You can’t change the past. What more do you want from the school NOW? Or are you just going to whine about 2017 for the next several decades?[/quote]

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